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St. Martin's famous Princess Juliana International Airport, where spectators are known to cling to the barrier fences to feel the jet blast of an airplane taking off and planes fly right over the heads of beachgoers, was decimated by the powerful storm Wednesday.

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A commercial airline landing at the Princess Juliana International Airport in St Maarten.

The Dutch Royal Navy tweeted that the airport was "unreachable at the moment," but that getting it back up and running is a "high priority for the delivery of help and supplies."